Daily Archives: July 5, 2018

Cops are leaving the Detroit Police Department at an alarming rate, their union says.
Mark Diaz: “How are we going to compete?”
Since Jan. 1, the Detroit Police Officers Association union has lost 117 officers — an average of 4.5 per week — many of whom have gone to other cities for higher pay and improved ...

By Chuck Carroll By mid-afternoon Saturday, Jay Lethal was beaming ear to ear. His smile was a bright as the sun shining in the cloudless blue sky above Fairfax, Virginia. It was less than 24 hours earlier that he scored a major victory at Ring of Honor’s Best In The World pay-per-view. He nailed his patented Lethal Injection, and the ...

DALLAS (AP) — Texas prosecutors on Friday filed sexual assault charges against Larry Nassar and a trainer who worked at his side, expanding the worst abuse scandal in U.S. sports history beyond Michigan while also clearing world-renowned gymnastics coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi whose ranch served as a training site for Olympians. Nassar, a former sports doctor, was charged with ...

Standard Bistro & Larder on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor, which opened in April, gets heaps of praise from Metro Times’ Tom Perkins:
There’s really not much in southeast Michigan’s suddenly exciting dining scene like the Standard Bistro and Larder, chef Alex Young’s new French restaurant. For all the flavors that you couldn’t find here ...

DETROIT (AP) — Pitching coach Chris Bosio said Thursday he was fired by the Detroit Tigers for using the word “monkey,” but insists he didn’t say it in a racial or demeaning context. Bosio told USA Today he used the word while talking about pitcher Daniel Stumpf, who is white. Bosio said Stumpf is nicknamed “Spider Monkey” because of the ...

The artist worked on his paintings at MOCAD.
There’s something quite interetsting about an exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in Midtown through July 29.
First off, artist Tal R, aka Shlomo Rosenzweig, was born in Tel Aviv and is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Secondly, he’s never stepped foot in the Detroit neighborhoods ...

(CNN) — A planet-hunting instrument has captured the first confirmed image of a newborn planet that’s still forming in our galaxy. To the right of the black circle at the center of the image, the round bright planet can be seen within the disk of gas and dust around the young dwarf star PDS 70. Of course, the center isn’t ...

Talk about faith in Detroit’s future, catch this: A 12-story tower with 374 residences is coming to the Lafayette Park neighborhood on downtown’s eastern edge.
The project, Lafayette West, will have lofts, townhouses, flats and apartments for rent and sale. At least 75 of the rental units will have “affordable rents” for moderate-income tenants, the city announces. ...

(CNN) — Timmy Kinner wanted revenge for being kicked out of an Idaho apartment complex, police say. So Kinner attacked a 3-year-old’s birthday party at the complex, which houses refugees, and stabbed nine people, including six children, Boise Police Chief William Bones said Sunday. Kinner has been charged with nine counts of aggravated battery and six counts of injury to ...

They’re coming for you. (Just kidding, PSYCH.)
As though heatstroke, sunburn, Lyme disease, mosquitos and fireworks burns aren’t enough to worry about this holiday, we have another for the list: Rabid bats.
The Free Press reports that rabid-bat confirmations are two-and-a-half-times higher this year than last. Most were found in Lansing and METRO DETROIT (Please think ...